Construction
The Jigsaw Business Group team is made up of specialist process improvement consultants who have hands-on experience in the construction sector. We offer fully bespoke services that understand the challenges, processes, and goals of construction businesses to help drive transformational change and secure long-term success within a competitive and complex industry.
Delivering results for construction businesses
Whether you need support with construction recruitment, improving your supply chain, implementing sustainable solutions, or other business improvement services. We have the expertise and resources to fully meet your requirements and ensure your construction business is reducing unnecessary cost, achieving turnaround, and most importantly delivering results that go above and beyond your expectations.
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What challenges do construction businesses face?
The construction sector is a significant and important part of our working society, but with high demand there is an increase in pressure facing businesses. Some key challenges facing construction businesses include successfully completing projects whilst managing finite resources, ambitious time schedules, and limited budgets.
Over the past few years these challenges have become even more prominent due to technological evolutions and increased digitalisation, difficulty securing financing, disruptions to supply chains, and external economic factors. However, despite these obstacles, if you have the right support from a specialist business growth consultant like Jigsaw, all aspects of your business can operate successfully – offering a stable platform for ongoing improvement.
Our approach
Due to our real-life construction industry experience, we can help you identify and mitigate any potential risks and issues that could arise across the sector. With our bespoke services and quick scalability, your business processes will be adaptable to any new developments, ensuring you are always one-step ahead. Unique industry challenges require bespoke business solutions, which our experts at Jigsaw always deliver.
Our team of industry experts have unrivalled knowledge and are supplemented by an impressive network of over 70 highly skilled practitioners, based around the world. This allows Jigsaw to meet the needs of our construction clients quickly and effectively in several different countries. We can drive sustainable results and change through our multi-disciplinary services. These include:
- Business consultancy
- Recruitment
- Sustainable solutions
- Digital solutions
Training and Development Case Study
Project Summary
Product: Edge computing
Service: Setting up of project management framework
The Challenge
- The client faced many problems affecting their product delivery: scope management, cost creep, late deliveries and feasibility issues
- In addition, top management were only notified once things have gone wrong or escalated
The Solution
- Jigsaw embedded a senior programme manager in Eurotech to study and understand the constraints and develop a framework to be used in future projects
- Utilising a four-step approach (process mapping, project delivery, documentation, communication) our SPM worked with the client’s team to create a new Programme Management Office (PMO) framework
Why Jigsaw Business Group?
- A proven track record with a team possessing real industry experience, as such, possessing empathy to support businesses accordingly, understanding individual pain points.
- Unrivalled sector knowledge and technical expertise with an ability to look at things from a fresh perspective to deliver process driven solutions that help businesses to reduce costs, increase efficiencies and streamline business operations;
Key Achievements
- The client was left with a robust framework which included processes, documentation and reporting structure
- Following two successful pilots, the methodology was adopted and is now used company-wide:
- Visibility of issues enables top management to assess project’s health in real-time
- Transparency and granularity of issues as they arise enable quicker reaction
- Comparative visualisation of complex programmes enables better distribution of resources
- Key KPI’s can be measured against targets in real-time, allowing for flexing of resources and changes to product before finalisation of design
- The client faced many problems affecting their product delivery: scope management, cost creep, late deliveries and feasibility issues
- In addition, top management were only notified once things have gone wrong or escalated
- Jigsaw embedded a senior programme manager in Eurotech to study and understand the constraints and develop a framework to be used in future projects
- Utilising a four-step approach (process mapping, project delivery, documentation, communication) our SPM worked with the client’s team to create a new Programme Management Office (PMO) framework
- A proven track record with a team possessing real industry experience, as such, possessing empathy to support businesses accordingly, understanding individual pain points.
- Unrivalled sector knowledge and technical expertise with an ability to look at things from a fresh perspective to deliver process driven solutions that help businesses to reduce costs, increase efficiencies and streamline business operations;
- The client was left with a robust framework which included processes, documentation and reporting structure
- Following two successful pilots, the methodology was adopted and is now used company-wide:
- Visibility of issues enables top management to assess project’s health in real-time
- Transparency and granularity of issues as they arise enable quicker reaction
- Comparative visualisation of complex programmes enables better distribution of resources
- Key KPI’s can be measured against targets in real-time, allowing for flexing of resources and changes to product before finalisation of design
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